Working In The In Room; The Quickshow! Feature - ScanSoft Kai’s Power SHOW User Manual

Working in the IN Room

In the IN Room, you can import pictures
in a wide variety of formats including:
TIFF, BMP, PICT, JPG, FPX, and PSD. The
IN Room also lets you load pictures from
a digital camera or scanner (using the
TWAIN interface), as well as import files
(using Photoshop Acquire plug-ins).
SHOW's IN Room even supports AVI or
QuickTime video clip import.
Each of the feature buttons in the IN
Room offers a way to open or add
different files into SHOW. The import
options are:
• Open an existing show that was
previously saved as a project (.shw) or
show (.sas) file in the OUT Room.
• Add a single picture, movie, SHOW
Slide (.shp), or PC PowerPoint
presentation.
• Add a folder of pictures, movies,
SHOW Slides, or PC PowerPoint
presentations.
• Load pictures from a digital camera or
scanner using TWAIN.
• Capture a picture using a Photoshop
Acquire plug-in.
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• Add an existing SHOW project file
(.shw) or show file (.sas) to the
current show.
Use the IN Room to open, add, and import files
into SHOW.

The QUICKSHOW! Feature

The QUICKSHOW! feature lets you
create an entire presentation with just a
few simple clicks. It's one of SHOW's most
convenient features.
When you activate the QUICKSHOW!
feature, a dialog appears displaying
sentences containing several statements.
These statements make up the Simple
Sentence Control (SSC) script. Each
statement describes the options that will
be used to create your show. For example:
"Create a QUICKSHOW! with all
files, sequence them as loaded, and
use random transitions. Click to
advance, play CD track #1, and loop
to the beginning."
Use the IN Room's QUICKSHOW! dialog to
create an entire show in seconds.
To change how your show is created, you
simply change one of the statements. For
example, if you want to change which
photos are used in the show, change the
statement "with all files" to "with only
selected files."
Each statement has several options. Click
on a statement to see the available
options. You can save your favorite
QUICKSHOW! scripts using the memory
dots in the bottom-left corner of the
dialog.